Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 03:34:26 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Calculating swap file size Message-ID: <15363.24098.8617.782371@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <003701c17725$8abc5c20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15363.11945.410356.244254@guru.mired.org> <003701c17725$8abc5c20$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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[Context recovered from top posting. Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> types: > From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> > > Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> types: > > > Does FreeBSD resort to swap only when RAM is exhausted, or does it > > > have to use the swap file all the time (as in a one-to-one VM > > > mapping scheme)? > > Neither. It doesn't do a ono-to-one VM scheme, but the system is > > opportunistic about putting things on swap and tagging the page as > > "free" if it can. > If I understand you and others correctly, as long as all processes > can be contained in RAM, swap space will never be used at all No, that's not the case, and I didn't say that was the case. Please see the FAQ, section 13, question 1, for more information on that. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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